Device for washing and cleaning windows



(No Model.)

J. KIEPER. DEVIGE'FOR WASHING AND CLEANING WINDOWS.

'No. 569.105. Patented Oct. 6, 1896;

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JOHN KIEFER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DEVICE FOR WASHING AND CLEANING WINDOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,105, dated October6, 1896.

Application filed March 14, 1896. $erial No. 583,267. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN KIEFER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for W'ashing andCleaning Windows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to devices for washing and cleaning windows, andthe invention relates to a class of devices which are adapted to be usedwith a long handle which will reach high windows and serve to thoroughlyclean them without getting on a step-ladder or the like, allsubstantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my newand improved device; Fig. 2 is an enlarged central'crosssection thereofon the line of the handle and showing the handle in position.

A represents the water chamber or receptacle, which in a f ull-sizeddevice usually is about eight inches in length and of proportional widthand depth, about as shown. The said chamber, therefore, will readilycarry a quart of water, which will serve for considerable washing andyet not be heavy to operate with at the end of the long handle or poleB.

One of the features of this device is the handle-socket 2, through thecenter of chamber A. It will be seen that this socket 2 is a separateand independentpart which projects through the water-chamber and throughthe front and rear walls 3 and 4 thereof, and is soldered or otherwisesecured therein.

A feature of novelty is the sponge supporting and controlling mechanism.Thus along the narrowed side 5 of the water-chamber and about thewater-outlet therefrom is a wall or flange 6, preferably rounded at itsends and forming a chamber for the sponge C or its equivalent; The planof this device contemplates simply the keeping of the sponge C moistenough to moisten the glass as the sponge is passed over it, but thesponge also is supposed to be so packed and contained in its chamber asnot to permit flowin g of the water from the said chamber.

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thermore, the small orifices 8 or their equivalent, through which thewater comes to the sponge, also contribute to confining the water exceptas itis wanted and needed to wet the sponge. A further feature operatingin this behalf is the water-channel in the bottom of the sponge-chamber,formed by the narrow walls 9, and which extend along both sides of thesmall orifices 8, thus forming a guard for said orifices and permittingthe channel between the walls 9 to serve as awater-distributer to thesponge. When the sponge is used, the device is inverted, as comparedwith the drawings, and so that the sponge is brought against the glass.Then after the washing with the sponge is done the rubber wiper D isused in a manner now well known.

The sponge O is designed to be held very much as it would be in oneshand, so far as the immediate using or rubbing part thereof isconcerned, but in order that it may also be compacted somewhat firmlyover the waterdistributing channel at the center of the sponge-chamberIemployaholding and binding rod E. This rod is fixed to one end of thesponge-chamber centrally thereof in wall 6 and at its free end engagesunder catch 10, the end lying in a notch in the wall 6 beneath saidcatch. The sponge O is first putinto position, and then the binding-rodE is laid across the same and fastened down under catch 10. This ofcourse crowds the sponge compactly over the walls 9, but leaves itpractically as free for work as if it were held by hand, the rod losingitself and the sponge springing back over it from both sides and servingevery purpose as well as if no rod were there.

The body or chamber A is made, preferably, of light sheet metal of somesuitable kind, and the sides 3 and 4 converge from the bottom 1 to thetop 5.

It will be seen that the handle-socket 2 is set at an inclination toboth top and bottom 1 and 5 and passes through sides 3 and 4:. Thesponge is arranged along the top of the said chamber and the rubberwiper D along the bottom and edge thereof.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The device described comprising the water-reservoir having a seriesof small outapart from the same in combination with a spongewithin saidWall 6 and the rod'E to fasten the sponge secured at one end to wall 6and extending longitudinally over the center of said water-distributingchamber and means to fasten the free end of said rod, sub stantially asdescribed.

Witness my hand to the foregoing specification on this 22d day ofFebruary, 1896.

' JOHN KIEFER.

lVitnesses: H. T. FISHER, R. B. MosER.

